The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he'd been serving a life sentence for murdering a close ...

The state spends $15 billion a year on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with the cost of ...

State corrections officials have launched a homicide investigation after a convicted killer from Alameda County died following an incident at a Central Valley prison Thursday evening.

He said his deputies have confiscated enough fentanyl at the jail “to kill the entire population of Elk Grove.” ...

A body found in rural southeastern Kentucky is believed to be the man suspected of shooting and wounding five people on an interstate highway, authorities said Wednesday night. The search ended with ...

Officials at the prison said they received word of the scheme Thursday and began monitoring calls of the inmate in question. The inmate was allegedly heard instructing someone to send money on his ...

While California prides itself on making voting easier, some groups still face barriers, including many people in county jails who have not been convicted. Most California jails don’t offer in-person ...

Among the issues voters will be asked this November will be to rule on whether prisoners should continue to be forced to work ...

Every year, more than 30,000 people are released from California state prisons. In recent years, the corrections department has spent about $5 million a year in gate money allowances, according to ...

() San Francisco’s former district attorney is leading a class action lawsuit requiring the state to follow through on a 1973 statute signed into law by then-governor Ronald ...

Cardenas underwent two strip searches, a cavity search where a male doctor allegedly violated her, X-ray and CT scans, and a drug and pregnancy test — and was still not allowed to see her ...